Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 408 407 718
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.36% 12.91% 15.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.97% 40.10% 48.74%
Number of salaries quoted 214 304 664
10th Percentile £14,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,487 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,438 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,030
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.11% -9.19%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,276 1,015 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.15% 32.20% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 571 586 1,310
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,125 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -16 111 £55,000 - 43
Cambridgeshire +5 88 £65,000 +52.94% 27
Essex -10 68 £41,000 -20.77% 46
Bedfordshire +8 53 £14,000 -72.00% 17
Suffolk +21 46 £47,500 -13.64% 12
Norfolk -1 39 £60,000 +100.00% 14
East Anglia - 3 £95,000 - 13
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (7.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.47%) WordPress
4 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 49 (12.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.96%) Dynamics AX
1 8 (1.96%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (28.92%) Microsoft 365
2 76 (18.63%) AWS
3 73 (17.89%) Power Platform
4 65 (15.93%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.27%) Azure AI
6 19 (4.66%) SaaS
7 17 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 17 (4.17%) GitHub
8 15 (3.68%) GCP
8 15 (3.68%) Snowflake
9 14 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.43%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.94%) IaaS
10 12 (2.94%) PaaS
11 11 (2.70%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.47%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.23%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.87%) Firewall
2 27 (6.62%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.13%) DHCP
3 25 (6.13%) VPN
3 25 (6.13%) WAN
4 22 (5.39%) DNS
5 21 (5.15%) LAN
6 12 (2.94%) Internet
6 12 (2.94%) VLAN
7 10 (2.45%) WLAN
8 7 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.47%) Wireless
10 5 (1.23%) Network Security
10 5 (1.23%) SAN
11 4 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.98%) DMZ
11 4 (0.98%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.74%) IP Telephony
13 1 (0.25%) MPLS
13 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (15.44%) Power BI
2 46 (11.27%) Tableau
3 17 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.47%) MySQL
7 6 (1.47%) Redis
8 5 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.74%) Big Data
10 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.25%) QlikView
12 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.43%) Git
2 9 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.74%) JIRA
4 2 (0.49%) MSTest
4 2 (0.49%) NUnit
4 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.49%) TestNG
5 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 198 (48.53%) Social Skills
2 47 (11.52%) Finance
3 22 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.90%) Law
5 11 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (2.70%) Multimedia
5 11 (2.70%) Publishing
6 10 (2.45%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.23%) Legal
8 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.98%) Retail
10 3 (0.74%) Banking
10 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.74%) Marketing
11 2 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Police
12 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (25.49%) Analyst
2 92 (22.55%) Junior
3 88 (21.57%) Junior Analyst
4 68 (16.67%) IT Support
5 44 (10.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 44 (10.78%) Data Analyst
5 44 (10.78%) Junior Data Analyst
5 44 (10.78%) Junior Security Analyst
5 44 (10.78%) Security Analyst
6 41 (10.05%) Architect
7 36 (8.82%) Senior
8 32 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (7.84%) IT Engineer
9 31 (7.60%) Support Engineer
10 29 (7.11%) Developer
11 25 (6.13%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
12 24 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
13 22 (5.39%) Lead
14 21 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.66%) CSS
2 15 (3.68%) .NET
3 14 (3.43%) HTML
4 10 (2.45%) REST
5 9 (2.21%) React
6 6 (1.47%) SOAP
7 5 (1.23%) jQuery
7 5 (1.23%) Vue
8 4 (0.98%) SignalR
9 3 (0.74%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.74%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.74%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.74%) Kafka
9 3 (0.74%) Playwright
9 3 (0.74%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.74%) RESTful
9 3 (0.74%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.74%) Web Services
10 2 (0.49%) JWT
10 2 (0.49%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.64%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.90%) Cyberattack
3 12 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.72%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.47%) Robotics
9 5 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.98%) Blog
10 4 (0.98%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.98%) PKI
10 4 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 107 (26.23%) Windows
2 76 (18.63%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.92%) Windows 10
3 16 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.21%) Android
5 9 (2.21%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.72%) Linux
7 5 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (28.43%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (20.10%) Mentoring
3 69 (16.91%) AI
4 64 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
5 63 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (11.03%) Agile
6 45 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (9.80%) ITIL
8 34 (8.33%) DevOps
9 33 (8.09%) Customer Service
9 33 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (8.09%) Roadmaps
10 31 (7.60%) CI/CD
11 28 (6.86%) Analytics
12 27 (6.62%) ERP
13 26 (6.37%) Software Engineering
14 25 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (5.88%) Technology Roadmap
16 21 (5.15%) Event-Driven
16 21 (5.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 76 (18.63%) Python
1 76 (18.63%) SQL
2 32 (7.84%) PowerShell
3 27 (6.62%) C#
4 23 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.21%) PHP
5 9 (2.21%) R
6 7 (1.72%) Java
7 5 (1.23%) Bash
7 5 (1.23%) C++
8 4 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.74%) VBScript
10 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (34.80%) Azure Certification
2 44 (10.78%) CompTIA CySA+
2 44 (10.78%) CompTIA Security+
2 44 (10.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 41 (10.05%) Degree
4 38 (9.31%) Security Cleared
5 26 (6.37%) AWS Certification
6 24 (5.88%) SC Cleared
7 20 (4.90%) CEH
8 19 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.43%) CCNA
10 13 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (2.45%) CCNP
13 8 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.23%) MCSA
14 5 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.98%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.96%) QA
4 6 (1.47%) GDPR
4 6 (1.47%) NIST
5 5 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.98%) GRC
6 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 4 (0.98%) JSP 440
6 4 (0.98%) NCSC
6 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.43%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.70%) Docker
6 7 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.98%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (12.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.96%) Ansible
4 6 (1.47%) SCCM
5 5 (1.23%) Terraform
6 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.98%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.98%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.49%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 281 (68.87%) Microsoft
2 64 (15.69%) ForeScout
3 29 (7.11%) VMware
4 18 (4.41%) SAP
5 16 (3.92%) Cisco
6 14 (3.43%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.19%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.94%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.70%) Workday
10 10 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.21%) Databricks
12 8 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (1.72%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
14 6 (1.47%) Apple
14 6 (1.47%) Aruba
14 6 (1.47%) Google
14 6 (1.47%) Pega
15 5 (1.23%) Epicor
16 4 (0.98%) Juniper